The feasible triangle has vertices
These come from the three pairs of active boundary lines and satisfy the remaining inequalities. Its denominator is positive at each vertex, with minimum , so is positive throughout the triangle because it is an affine function.
For a direct linear programming optimality certificate, add twice the second inequality to the third to get . Thus , equivalently . Division by the positive denominator gives an objective at most . Both inequalities used in the bound are equalities at , where the first inequality is also satisfied. Therefore
Equality requires the two bounding inequalities to be tight, so this optimizer is unique.